Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

At the intersection of mathematics and music, the Festum Pi festival brings together theorists and performers to explore one of humanity’s oldest intellectual duets. We spoke with participant ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Is artificial intelligence replacing human genius in mathematics, or redefining it? From the Navier-Stokes mystery to ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...